Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids in Ghana, CBS News investigation finds

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Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids in Ghana, CBS News investigation finds
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Meanwhile Americans eat beef from slaughter houses in the Midwest that use children as a cleaning service.

And both of those things are terrible.

Both of these problems are capitalism

Child exploitation is not unique to capitalism.

Most "good" systems try not to flagrantly enable downsides, either. The point is capitalism isn't solving those problems. At all.

I remember when that article came out I had a passing thought that it was probably JBS Grand Island. Low and behold... Not fucking surprised.

I worked at a company that did some upgrades for that system and that place is vile. It was hard not to puke in the parking lot some days and I remember walking around the outside of building (left), and seeing all of the spray downs on the way to the freezer.